All Posts Tagged With: "sugar"
U.S. Agricultural Programs: Who Pays?
E. C. Pasour, Jr. is professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University. He is coauthor with Randal R. Rucker of Plowshares and Pork Barrels: The Political Economy of Agriculture (Independent Institute, 2005). The Economist labeled the recently enacted 2008 farm bill “A Harvest of Disgrace” (May 24, 2008). The five-year [...]
1Nov2008 | E.C. Pasour Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Unsustainable Politics of Natural Capitalism
Pierre Desrochers is research director at the Montreal Economic Institute (www.iedm.org). In their bestseller Natural Capitalism, a book so heartily praised by environmentalists and business executives that its American edition sold out before its publication date, authors Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins indict traditional capitalism as a “financially profitable” but “nonsustainable aberration [...]
1Jun2003 | Pierre Desrochers | 0 comments | ContinuedMonopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates by Charles R. Geisst
Oxford University Press • 2000 • 355 pages • $30.00 The current Microsoft court case, hotly debated and full of economic implications, makes a historical study of monopolies and antitrust law very relevant. Unfortunately, business historian Charles Geisst’s Monopolies in America is incomplete and one-sided, mostly reiterating the traditional statist interpretation of big business and [...]
1Apr2001 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedFlies in the Sugar Bowl
Dr. Poirot is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. If anyone seeks an example of the utter and total failure of government intervention as a substitute for the free-market method of satisfying human wants, let him study the sugar situation in the United States. In strict confidence, many an American [...]
1May1956 | Paul L. Poirot | 0 comments | Continued-
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